Books to read

Life education

These are books (1) that I have read and found useful and (2) that I have not read but that I believe will be useful:

  1. [Life: Philosophy] On the shortness of life
  2. [Life: Values, being useful] Benjamin Franklin
  3. [Life] Source Code: My Beginnings
  4. [Life] Poor Charlie’s Almanack
  5. [Life] The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
  6. [Life] Titan
  7. [Life] Thomas Edison
  8. [Life] Self-Reliance
  9. [Philosophy] Nicomachean Ethics
  10. [Philosophy] Open Socrates
  11. [Philosophy] Aspiration The Agency of Becoming
  12. [Philosophy] The War of Art
  13. [Wisdom] The Beginning of Infinity
  14. [Wisdom] Thinking in Systems
  15. [Psychology] The Selfish Gene
  16. [Psychology] Power
  17. [Design] The Design of Everyday Things
  18. [Design] Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
  19. [Parenting] The Sovereign Child
  20. [Parenting] The Daily Dad
  21. [Parenting] Good Inside
  22. [Parenting] How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
  23. [Parenting] The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read
  24. [Parenting] Totto Chan
  25. [Parenting] The Learning Game
  26. [Parenting & Leadership] A Different Kind of Power
  27. [Personal finance] Psychology of Money

Others

  1. Empires of Light
  2. Writing
    1. The Writing Life
    2. On Writing
    3. Bird by Bird
  3. Walden
Created July 13, 2026
Last edited September 25, 2026